Introduction The goal is simple. Present a web form that allows a user to type in a URL. A username and password also accepted. When the user clicks perform copy, the image pointed to by the URL will be copied to azure blob storage through a streaming...

This post is about provisioning a Linux VM (Ubuntu) with Premium storage. Most posts focus on Windows but the customers I work with our 100% Linux based. As of this post, the only definitive and testing scripting approach is with Windows-based PowerShell...

This is a post about the Azure platform at large. It attempts to explain it in its entirety, using the Azure portal as the launching point for discussion. There are currently around 26 separate menu selections from the portal itself. Each one of these...

I have a customer wanting to run their Rails stack on Azure. So I thought I'd explore what it takes to make that happen. Ruby on Rails is an application stack that provides developers with a framework to quickly create a variety of web applications. Starting...

I needed to create a bunch of connection strings to use in my code. But this can be error prone and painful, especially if you have many data centers. In addition, you may decide to regenerate the primary storage key, in which case the whole nightmare...